The Forgotten Origin of the Scientific Method – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.- Hey, smart people, Joe here
2.If your science education was anything like mine, you probably learned about the scientific method
3.The way that it's taught to us, you make an observation, you come up with a guess about what's going on, and you test that idea with an to figure out if you're right or wrong
4.Rinse, repeat, Newton's your uncle and hopefully you end up with a better picture of reality (bell dinging) than you had yesterday
5.But that hasn't always been a thing
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR B1)
experiment
B2A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried.
Example:
"and you test that idea with an experiment"
importantly
B1(sentence adverb) Used to mark a statement as having importance.
Example:
"doing experiments, and most importantly,"
ingredients
B1One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food.
Example:
"Those are important ingredients"
universally
B1In a universal manner.
Example:
"Today, these are the key parts of what we universally call"
imprisonment
B2A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime.
Example:
"Ibn al-Haytham emerged from his imprisonment"
refigured
A2A A2-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
"refigured those things out."
foundation
B2The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.
Example:
"Eventually, he wrote a book that laid the whole foundation"
medicines
A2A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way.
Example:
"medicines and invent agriculture."
explanations
B1The act or process of explaining.
Example:
"that we know of who started looking for natural explanations"
pythagoras
A2A A2-level word commonly used in this context.
Example:
"For instance, the Greek philosopher Pythagoras"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| experiment | B2 | A test under controlled conditions made to either demonstrate a known truth, examine the validity of a hypothesis, or determine the efficacy of something previously untried. |
| importantly | B1 | (sentence adverb) Used to mark a statement as having importance. |
| ingredients | B1 | One of the substances present in a mixture, especially food. |
| universally | B1 | In a universal manner. |
| imprisonment | B2 | A confinement in a place, especially a prison or a jail, as punishment for a crime. |
| refigured | A2 | A A2-level word commonly used in this context. |
| foundation | B2 | The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect. |
| medicines | A2 | A substance which specifically promotes healing when ingested or consumed in some way. |
| explanations | B1 | The act or process of explaining. |
| pythagoras | A2 | A A2-level word commonly used in this context. |
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